Dear Rob,
Can you help me with this?
I really like this guy, we have been friends for over ten years. We expressed feelings for each other but since then our friendship deteriorated as I would not settle for a casual kind of thing as I loved him.
We had a massive fight, where he [...]
Dear Rob,
I recently got out of a 3 year relationship.
I ended the relationship with almost no hurt feelings since I had been out of love with the guys for a while.
However I now have issues with relationships because I don’t want to invest time like that again and gain nothing. After we broke [...]
Dear Rob,
My question is RE: relationship etiquette involving a “friends with benefits” arrangement.
I have a female friend with whom I have a mutually beneficial (not financial) arrangement, in which she receives some actual benefits and in return we have regular “dates”.
I am not asking re: the morality of that type of [...]
Dear Rob,
I encountered your article online when I was searching for the consequences of FWBs, and I decided to email you. Maybe you could give me advice.
Okay, I am one of those women who agreed to be FWBs with the guy I met.
I met him online and it turns out that we [...]
Dear Rob,
I have this friend and her name is “Girl”.
She is like my best friend but I’ve been wanting to go out with her ever since I met her but she already has a boyfriend named “Jeff” and I can see she is not really happy with him.
And if I ask her out [...]
Hi Rob,
I have been seeing Charlie* for about 5 months. Charlie* is and engineer and works late, which means its hard to see him regularly because of late shifts. Usually on his early days or days off we’ll get together for dinner or a drink. This results in an over night stay [...]
Dear Rob,
I read some of the questions about the friends with benefits subject and have one myself.
Mine is a little different. I’ll call him ‘J’. We met around 8 years ago, online, we just started talking and eventually met up and became friends, the first night we hooked up but it didn’t [...]